POTTSVILLE - A 41-year-old Atkins woman was taken to a hospital after suffering multiple gunshot wounds last Thursday at a residence on Pine Ridge Road.

According to a report, Lt. Rex Surrette was dispatched to the residence and spoke with Pottsville Police Officers Cory Bauer and Jeremy Riedmueller. A man and woman stated they were at the woman's residence when a 40-year-old Pottsville man came to her residence and allegedly began an altercation with her.

The man, allegedly intoxicated, pulled a small lock blade knife from his pocket and threatened the alleged victim, who took the knife away from him and told him to leave. The man left after driving through the yard and making ruts in the grass, the report indicated.

At approximately 9 p.m., the alleged suspect returned to the residence, stopped at the top of the driveway on the road and fired toward the residence multiple times with a shotgun. During the shooting, the woman was struck by several pellets from the shotgun. The man then fled south on Edwards Road in a 1990 Dodge van. The woman was transported by Pope County EMS to Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center. The man was taken into custody by Pottsville Officer Bauer before 11 p.m. and cited for second-degree battery, terroristic threatening and aggravated assault. His bond was set at $50,000 commercial during a bond hearing Friday at the Pope County Detention Center.

Authorities recovered five 12-gauge shotgun shell casings on the ground at the top of the driveway, according to the report.